fertile Definition

fertile
adj

1. Said of land, soil, etc: containing the nutrients required to support an abundant growth of crops, plants, etc.

Thesaurus: productive, prolific, teeming, fruitful, flowering, lush, generative, abundant, fecund, fructuous, rich; Antonym: arid, barren.
2. Producing or capable of producing babies, young or fruit.
3. Said of an egg or seed: capable of developing into a new individual.
4. Said of the mind: rich in ideas; very productive.
5. Providing a wealth of possibilities.

Example: fertile ground for research
6. Producing many offspring; prolific.
7. physics.
Said of a chemical substance: capable of being converted into a fissile or fissionable material.

Derivative: fertilely
adverb

Etymology: 15c: from Latin fertilis, from ferre to bear.